The University of Michigan’s chap-
ter of the Spill the Honey Foundation, 
an organization committed to telling 
the history of Black and Jewish civil 
rights alliances, screened the new film 
“Shared Legacies” Thursday evening. 
The documentary discusses the part-
nership between the Black and Jewish 
communities during the Civil Rights 
Movement. About 70 students and 
professors attended the screening.
The film highlighted how Jewish 
leaders supported Martin Luther King 
and the Black community’s efforts to 
combat segregation and racism in the 
1960s. The film included prominent 
leaders such as members of the King 
family, Rabbi Alvin Sugarman and the 
late U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).
After the screening, a panel dis-
cussed takeaways from the film.
Shari Rogers, director and produc-
er of “Shared Legacies” and founder of 
Spill the Honey, said she was inspired 

to create the film to show how the 
Jewish community supported the 
Black community during the Civil 
Rights Movement. 
Rogers said she understands how 
history can be difficult to talk about, 
but she thinks people should still 
share their experiences in order to 
promote further conversations in the 
future.
“When souls have been destroyed, 
no one wants to talk about it. It’s so 
painful,” Rogers said. “We have a 
shared responsibility to slowly come 
to terms with the importance of mem-
ory and talking about what we went 
through.”
Panelist and Rackham student 
Andre Ray said the film calls attention 
to the shared histories of the Black and 
Jewish communities while also pro-
viding an opportunity for connection 
in the present.
“(It’s) an opportunity to build a 
bridge with another community,” Ray 
said. “These communities have such a 
rich history and to witness it together, 
in the same room, is such a powerful 

point to move forward from on a cam-
pus like this.”
The third panelist, Business 
senior Blake Weissman, is the 
national youth president for the Spill 
the Honey Foundation. Weissman 
said Spill the Honey’s main motiva-
tion for screening the film was edu-
cating people about the connection 
between the Black and Jewish com-
munities. 
Weissman said they chose to screen 
the documentary at college campuses 
and schools because they believe it is 
especially important for youth popula-
tions to know this history.
“We’re bringing this to college cam-
puses, we’re bringing it to high schools, 
we’re bringing it to middle schools,” 
Weissman said. “It’s not like it should 
be (taught). It needs to be taught. And 
that’s what we’re doing.”
In a group discussion after the 
panel, students shared their reactions 
to the film.
LSA sophomore Samuel Hausman-
Weiss said the film screening was a 
great way to spark discussion about 

topics generally not spoken about. He 
said college students need to learn 
about new perspectives and the film 
screening promoted learning about 
the intersection between Black and 
Jewish histories.
“This is where it starts. It starts 
with a conversation,” Hausman-Weiss 
said. “I think that this is the best first 
step there has been in a while.”
Business junior Henrik Angelstig 
attended the event and said he found 
the film eye-opening. Despite being 
familiar with Black and Jewish history 
prior to the viewing, Angelstig said he 
had never actually learned about how 
the two groups worked together dur-
ing the Civil Rights Movement.
“This has definitely been one of 
the most profound things I’ve ever 
watched,” Angelstig said. “Of course 
we have read about Black history and 
Jewish history in school, but I’ve never 
actually made a connection between 
the two. I’m just amazed at how blind 
I have been to that fact.”
Daily Staff Reporter Navya Gupta can 
be reached at itznavya@umich.edu.

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A recent University of Michigan 
study on concussions among college 
athletes found the timeline for concus-
sion recovery can take up to 28 days, as 
opposed to the previously suggested 14 
days. With a $42.65 million grant, the 
concussion study is believed to be the 
largest of its kind in history. 
The grant was split between $25 
million from the U.S. Army Medical 
Research and Development Command, 
$10 million from the National Collegiate 
Athletic Association and $7.65 from the 
U.S. Defense Health Agency. 
The study was conducted by Steve 
Broglio, head director of the U-M 
concussion center and member of the 
CARE Consortium — the NCAA-U.S. 
Department of Defense’s Concussion 
Assessment, Research and Educa-
tion leadership team. Broglio and his 
colleagues began the study in 2014 
at 30 sites across the country, includ-
ing four military academies. They 
enrolled all eligible varsity athletes 
and service academy cadets.
A total of 1,751 concussion cases 
were included in the study, with 
results showing 85% of people took 
over one month to be cleared for 
unrestricted participation in sports 
after a concussion. 
“We need to reframe the normal 
recovery time because there’s vari-
ability in how people recover from all 
injuries,” Broglio said. 
LSA freshman Tyler McLaurin, a 
linebacker on the U-M football team, 

said many coaches and athletic train-
ers have talked to the team about the 
findings of the study given the high 
number of concussions in football. 
McLaurin said he believes extending 
recovery time is beneficial in the long 
run even if it keeps players off of the 
field temporarily.
“I think that it hurts a person at the 
moment, but it is about more than just 
football,” McLaurin said. “Concus-
sions are long term and can affect a 
person in more ways than just the 
physical symptoms.”
A main goal of the study was to nor-
malize longer recovery rates, according 
to Broglio. Broglio said if sports teams 
follow the current medical literature, 
anyone who has 14 or more days of 
recovery time is “bucketed into the 
abnormal recovery group, even though 
they’re a 51st-percentile person.”
The “abnormal” label given to ath-
letes can be mentally demanding, Bro-
glio said, and can often cause them to 
put their athletic career before their 
physical health. Broglio said he has 
heard of many injuries ignored or not 
reported until after an event. 
“A concussion is unique in that if 
an athlete wants to hide it, it can be 
hidden,” Broglio said. “From a psy-
chological standpoint, we’re trying to 
reduce inadvertent pressure on team-
mates, coaches and parents to get 
somebody back to play, by reframing 
this from a more holistic manner.” 
McLaurin also said he believes 
concussed student-athletes should 
have post-concussion recovery time 
in order to catch up on academic work. 
“I feel as though it is much hard-

er to catch up after a concussion,” 
McLaurin said. “I have seen people 
force themselves to grind for days at a 
time in order to try to learn the infor-
mation during their concussion while 
everything that is going on around 
them in class.”
The paper also found minimal 
differences between how men and 
women recover. In addition, the study 
analyzed recovery time between 
concussions from contact versus 
non-contact sports. Overall, the study 
found there were not significant dif-
ferences in recovery time in different 
sports, according to Broglio.
“Those differences are really a 
day or two away, which in the grand 
scheme of things doesn’t really mean 
much,” Broglio said. “This allows cli-
nicians to have a unified approach to 
concussion management. They don’t 
need to make special circumstances 
for the football athlete versus the 
cross country runner, etc.”
In addition, individuals with their 
first, second and third injuries all 
recovered at approximately the same 
rate. It wasn’t until the fourth injury 
that researchers started seeing longer 
recovery periods. Broglio emphasized 
that the “longer” recovery period is 
only a day or two different than the 
normal one found in the study.
“There’s certainly not this idea of 
‘three concussions and you’re done 
with your career,’” Broglio said. 
“Those decisions are made on an 
individual basis, based on severity, the 
goals of the athletes and other per-
sonal factors.”
LSA freshman Hunter Thomson, a 

U-M varsity golfer, believes non-con-
tact-sport athletes should also take con-
cussions seriously. Though Thompson 
has never gotten a concussion himself, 
he hopes to pass the findings of the 
study along to friends and teammates. 
“This information is very impor-
tant, and by the sounds of it, it could 
help possibly elongate the careers of 
athletes,” Thompson said.
Broglio plans to use his grant for a 
future study that will consist of two 
phases. The first five years of the 
study will involve online evaluations, 
imaging studies, bloodwork, full neu-
ropsychology evaluations, clinical 
exams and DNA capture of current 
subjects. The second phase will fur-
ther explore how concussions affect 
aspects of the subjects’ future lives. 
“The main goal is to continue track-
ing the individuals through middle age 
and older adulthood to understand 
who ends up with poor outcomes and 
who doesn’t, and why,” Broglio said. 
“This will all help us get a handle on 
the long-term effects of injury.”
McLaurin said many athletes are 
 
passionate about following the find-
ings of the study in order to put their 
health first. 
“This is more than a game,” 
McLaurin said. “Football and all 
sports are just for a small amount of 
time. Sports end for various reasons, 
such as injuries or old age, so it is nec-
essary to be ready for backup plans. 
Concussions ruin the idea of backup 
plans because it dents the mental 
health and capability of a person.”
Daily Staff Reporter Ashna Mehra 
can be reached at ashmehra@umich.edu.

U-M study shows timeline for concussion 
recovery is nearly a month long, double the 
currently suggested length

Recovery rates for concussions are lengthened, athletes talk putting health first

ASHNA MEHRA
Daily Staff Reporter

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